Lawyers in Belgium

Darren Abrahams

Partner Darren Abrahams enables clients throughout the chemicals and life sciences supply chain to get and keep their products on the European market (in the UK and the EU). He focuses on defence of products through strategic advice, advocacy before institutions and agencies, and litigation before EU and national courts and tribunals. He has a wealth of experience with the regulation of biocidal products, plant protection products (agrochemicals), REACH, classification, labelling and packaging, GM food and feed, cosmetics, and endocrine disruptors. Darren also has particular experience defending clients resisting requests for access to confidential business information. For instance, he successfully defended the European Chemicals Agency in a high-profile case concerning its refusal to grant public access to information disclosing the identity and specific commercial activities of companies engaged with a number of allegedly hazardous substances. He also successfully led industry interveners in the Glyphosate appeal before the Court of Justice of the EU on the same issues.

Steptoe LLP

Dave Mertens

Partner

Scale

David Ballegeer

David Ballegeer advises clients across a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on the energy and energy‑transition sector. His practice focuses on complex financings, including bank-bond structures, capital markets, project and green financings. He advises EU and non-EU incorporated groups, listed and non-listed, and lenders on various financing products across the entire capital structure. David is widely regarded as one of Belgium’s leading banking and capital markets lawyers.

Clifford Chance

David Brenneman

David is an associate in Morgan Lewis's antitrust and competition team, he represents clients primarily in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and civil antitrust litigation. In the merger process, David works on premerger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, international merger control, merger investigations, second requests, and compliance with consent orders. David represents pharmaceutical, chemical, and financial services clients before the Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice, and he coordinates filings for multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions worldwide. For more information, view David's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/dbrenneman

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

David D\'Hooghe

Partner

Stibbe

David Du Pont

David is a corporate partner with extensive experience in M&A, private equity and real estate, advising clients on complex transactions across sectors and borders. David advises clients on a wide range of corporate and M&A matters, with expertise in private equity and corporate real estate. His practice covers acquisitions, divestitures, management buyouts, joint ventures and strategic investments, both domestic and cross-border, across a variety of sectors. Clients value his ability to lead complex transactions with clarity and precision. Prior to joining Bird & Bird, David has spent most of his career at international firms, where he headed both the Belgian Corporate/M&A and Real Estate departments. More recently, he has co-led the corporate, M&A and real estate teams at one of the Big 4 firms, helping clients navigate high-value deals and regulatory challenges. David's approach is collaborative and commercially focused. He works closely with clients to understand their strategic goals and deliver tailored solutions that support long-term growth. He also regularly advises trade associations on corporate governance and structural matters, bringing a broad perspective to the evolving regulatory landscape.

Bird & Bird

David Enzminger

Winston Taylor

David Haex

Partner & Head of Life Sciences, Belgium David specialises in every aspect of corporate transactional work, such as public and private M&A, venture capital transactions, general corporate lending, public offerings and general company law. A significant proportion of David’s work focuses on the digital business, life sciences and biotech sectors.

Osborne Clarke

David Haverbeke

David mainly focuses on the regulatory aspects of energy law, acting on behalf of private (international corporations, domestic companies) and public entities (governmental and regulatory entities). David has an in-depth understanding of the legal framework of the sector and provides counsel to major players regarding every aspect of energy regulatory and contractual issues. He is the go-to person for EU and domestic advocacy and public affairs matters and has significant experience in providing strategic advice and assistance in the regulatory and contractual frameworks in these markets, including permitting issues, greenhouse gas emissions related mechanisms, financing and public procurement. Finally, he has extensive experience in proceedings before the European Court of Justice, administrative and commercial courts, as well as various arbitration courts.

Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

David Kupka

David Kupka is Partner in the Antitrust & Competition Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Brussels. Focusing on European and French competition law, his main areas of practice encompass anticompetitive practices (cartels, vertical restrains and abuse of dominant position) and merger control issues. He practices in French and English.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

David Prync

Partner

CMS

David Ryckaert

David Ryckaert is a senior partner at Laurius and is internationally renowned for his extensive knowledge of M&A, venture capital and corporate litigation. As one of the leaders of the corporate team, he advises family shareholders, industrial buyers and private equity funds on transactions in Belgium and abroad. Quality, efficiency and straightforwardness: David sets great store by the Laurius DNA. He always goes to the limit for his clients, always focusing on a pragmatic, successful outcome for the case. In every situation, he puts forward creative solutions which perfectly meet the wishes and needs of his client.

Laurius

David Scheper

Winston Taylor

David Van Iseghem

Partner

Andersen

David Verwaerde

Counsel

Stibbe

Davinia Martens

Davinia Martens is a partner in the Corporate Finance Practice Group in the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2004. Davinia's practice focuses on reorganisations, M&A, private equity, and corporate compliance and governance. She is also a member of the Global Reorganisations Practice Group. Davinia advises both domestic and international clients on corporate finance matters, covering Belgian and cross-border M&A transactions and corporate reorganisations and restructurings, buy-outs, private equity, and venture capital transactions. She also advises clients on corporate compliance and governance matters and has played a prominent role in many of the reorganisations that our Belgian practice has been involved in.

Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

Delphine Joos

A Master’s degree in Law, an LL.M. in Corporate, Financial & Comparative Law from the University of Leeds and a postgraduate degree from the College of Europe in Bruges: Delphine Joos has a broad academic background and has been enriching the Laurius corporate department with it since 2021. With a specialisation in company law, she mainly focuses on M&A cases. Delphine values an involved and accessible follow-up of cases in her client relationship. Her communication style? Clear and responsive, so that clients can be serviced at their beck and call. Delphine pursues the highest quality in her legal assistance and advice. Going the extra mile is self-evident for her.

Laurius

Delphine Penninck

Delphine is a Counsel in the Corporate & Finance department of Lydian. She has a particular focus on: Corporate law Private equity Venture capital Corporate restructuring Warranty & Indemnity insurance

Lydian

Denis Fosselard

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Denis Waelbroeck

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Dennis Lievens

I am a partner in the Banking & Finance team at Fieldfisher Brussels.

Fieldfisher

Didier De Vliegher

Jones Day

Diego Lambrecht

As a counsel in the Brussels Corporate & Finance group, Diego has expertise in the fields of corporate, financial and commercial law, with a strong focus on M&A, restructurings and investments. Examples include private equity and venture capital transactions but also impact funding and strategic acquisitions, as well as advising clients on (sustainable) governance and shareholders' cooperation, and dealing with directors' liability issues. Other fields Diego is passionate about are business contracts (including distribution), financial services and capital markets transactions. As a lawyer since 2012, his leitmotif is to think out of the box while remaining surgical in all circumstances. Each case is different, but deserves to be handled with the same enthusiasm, curiosity and creativity.

Bird & Bird

Dieter Paemen

Dieter Paemen's practice focuses on European and Belgian antitrust law. He has over twenty five years of experience advising clients in European and Belgian merger clearance procedures, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, licensing and distribution agreements, and copyright and unfair competition issues. He acts for complainants and defendants as well as interested third parties. Dieter has particular expertise in the information technology, retail, and manufacturing industries.

Clifford Chance